“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.” Coco Chanel
It seems that I see Coco Chanel everywhere these days. She is always present in every style book I read, other fashion bloggers refer to her style in their outfits and her nautical style with stripes is very much on trend. I too am inspired by her enduring look, which has only been intensified since seeing the film Coco & Igor last weekend. Apart from a gripping story, the film also features many beautiful outfits. [click to continue…]
Many women after 40 experience weight gain on their bellies, especially those going into perimenopause or menopause. Your waist may disappear and you will start to develop more characteristics of the apple body shape. Luckily there are many things you can hide that belly, so that it doesn’t come in your way of looking fabulously stylish! Here are some of my tips. [click to continue…]
Here are a few more photos from my photo shoot with Leowell Gonzalez. This time wearing just my cream dress and my black and white patterned shirt. Of course you will remember this top from my black, white, red and hat pattern mixing article. Here the top is worn in a simpler way. [click to continue…]
First of all, Happy Chinese New Year everyone!
A while ago I wrote to you about my photography session with local photographer Leowell Gonzales, when I showed you my christmas outfit pictures. Here are some more images from that photoshoot, where I incorporated some more pattern mixing in my outfits. [click to continue…]
The fashion world is buzzing with orange and I’ve got the bug as well! I can hardly believe it, but yesterday I bought a top AND trousers in orange! And a bright version at that. I’m hoping to show it to you next week from a surprise location. But what to wear it with? I headed for some color combination inspiration to colourlovers.com. It’s a great site where you can create your own color combinations or get inspired by those of others. Here is what I found. [click to continue…]
I am a firm believer that style and looking good should not stop when you are going to do sports. Perhaps I’m still getting over all my frumpy looks from the past, but today, whenever I do sports, I attempt to look good as well. Why not? It’s a lot more fun feeling great in your sport clothes, and if you choose wisely those clothes are also super comfortable. [click to continue…]
As I found out on my recemt trip to cold Europe, leggings can be an extremely comfortable piece of clothing to wear in winter or in cooler weather. Leggings are thicker than tights so they are nice and warm and give good coverage for your legs. But how do you wear leggings so they also look good as well?
How to wear leggings so you look stylish?
In my opnion you should not wear leggings like a normal trouser. I would not do that at any age, but it certainly does not look very classy when you are over 40. As they reveal all curves of your legs, I feel it is much nicer to wear leggings as a supportive element for the rest of your clothes, rather than a main garment. I’m also a big fan of loser fitting leggings or tight pants. These will not show every curve in your legs and provide nice vertical lines and make your legs looks nice and slim. [click to continue…]
I’m having rather a busy day tomorrow. I’m going to the hair dresser, will need to do some shopping and will also attend a PR function. I’m still jet lagged so I will have trouble dragging myself out of the bed in the morning. In the evenings I feel quite energetic and that’s the time I use to get a lot of my work done. This morning (as I write this) I also had to rush away and woke up too late. Which left me exactly with 40 min to shower, dress, put makeup on, collect my things etc. Not a great feeling! So this night, I thought it would be best to prepare myself better. Why not choose my outfit for tomorrow this evening? And I’m so glad I did. [click to continue…]
